How do I reset my computer and clear everything like the way I bought it?

 

take the HDD, put into another PC, and DL a professional HDD cleaner. Use and high level multilevel 37 mixed pass of erasing. That should be decent.

What it does is rename all files and extensions on your hdd, erase your hdd, and write garbaged over and over and over 37x times using different combinations and format into different sectors. Depends on HDD size and the PC's speed. Should take up to couple days. I know my 500GB SATA took 5 days to do that on my old 3.2ghz P4.

Then put that HDD back to the PC and reinstall the OEM OS and applications before selling/returning it.

 

did your pc come with any "recovery discs"?

 

btw, are you talking about highlevel and security formating or simple restore/recovery?

 

if he had to ask...

 

I was refering to OP. There're two way of interpreting his question. I guess I thought too deep. h:

 

i know h:

 

My computer is acting really slow for the past month and i'v been kicked off the internet alots of times. I think I got a couple virus's. I just want to reset the whole thing from scratch again like it just came out the box. I'm not a computer nerd so I need to do this by steps.

 

How the hell do you get doing a 37-pass hard drive wipe out of that?

It's painfully obvious he's asking how to restore his pc back to how he got it.

93hondablk, use your "Recovery CD" or "Restore CD", whatever your maker called it. Stick it in the cd drive and reboot. Follow the instructions, it'll wipe out the pc and erase everything. But it will accomplish what you ask.

 

just buy a new one